In 2007, U2's landmark 1987 release The Joshua Tree, was digitally remastered from the original analogue tapes to mark 20 years since its release.
In 1987, The Joshua Tree reached Number 1 around the world and won a Grammy for 'Album of the Year', while U2 won the Brit Award for Best International Act and Time Magazine put the band on its cover, proclaiming them 'Rock's Hottest Ticket'. Including a clutch of the band's biggest ever tracks - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, Where The Streets Have No Name and With Or Without You - The Joshua Tree went on to sell more than 20 million copies.
The digitally remastered edition came in four formats:
* A standard CD featuring liner notes from Bill Flanagan, lyrics and unseen photographs from long time collaborator Anton Corbijn.
* A double 12" gatefold vinyl format, with the original album pressed across two 180 gram audiophile discs.
* A deluxe edition including a second CD of b-sides and demos from the original album sessions.
* A limited edition box set containing two CD's and a DVD featuring The Joshua Tree Tour live from the Hippodrome in Paris and other rare video footage.
The track listing is as follows: Where The Streets Have No Name, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, With Or Without You, Bullet The Blue Sky, Running To Stand Still, Red Hill Mining Town, In God's Country, Trip Through Your Wires, One Tree Hill, Exit and Mothers Of The Disappeared.

COMMENTS

I had the good fortune of being there with friends from Texas and Paris. What an unbelievable show that is still my best U2 memory. Thank God for Larry, Adam, Bono, and the Edge. God bless U2!

Iguinho

26 July, 2013

Great album!

That is a great album! I just woul like it to be released on CD! I have the DVD and I can say that the band was great in Paris performing that show!

mike_walsh

31 August, 2012

How to improve on perfection

I fully admit to being biased. I love the Joshua Tree and it came along at a pivotal point in my life and is very much part of my personal soundtrack.
The deluxe reissue is brilliant. Not just because it gives me digital versions of a lot of things I have on cassette singles - though that doesn't hurt in my book.
The sound of the Joshua Tree was something totally new and the final product was very clean and pared down to fit. The reissue broadens the picture U2 were creating. Whether you experienced the impact of the album at the time or not this is a must have.

DavidAK

23 August, 2012

Paris 87 DVD

This is such a stunning show!
Please release the soundtrack on CD.
Trip through your wires, brilliant.
Unforgettable Fire, unforgettable!